Introduction to Interferometry
Phil Diamond
- Michelson interferometry
- Definition of fringe visibility
- Fourier Transforms
- Optics:
Holes in a mask of an aperture, more holes --> better image
- Simple interferometer in practice
- Discussion of geometry
- fringe frequency
- delay
- fringe phase
- u and v
- Discussion of geometry
- Imaging
- Basic definitions
- Point spread function
- Gridding
- Convolution
- Some real interferometers:
- WSRT, VLA, MERLIN, EVN
- ALMA, VLTI